Well, the national team were abroad, of course, but we're not counting them. The Brazilian and
Mexican leagues were the major top flights in action in spite of the international break during the
weekend just gone, and there were goals in both of them. You can read about them and watch them
right here, as [.
Click to continue reading...
Argentines Abroad is delayed slightly this week by the Monday night fixture bumping the normal
domestic coverage a day on, and the fact I've been writing an article for another site (more of
which later in the week). That's useful in some ways because the Copa del Rey in Spain has ensured
there's action to [.
Click to continue reading...
On the 14th November Diego Maradona's Argentina will face Spain in Atlético de Madrid's Estadio
Vicente Calderón in a friendly as the first part of their preparation for the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa. On Friday, Maradona named his squad for the match, which will consist solely of
players playing for clubs outside Argentina, [.
Click to continue reading...
On Saturday one group of Argentines abroad got off to a very good start in a new campaign José
Luis Brown's national Under 17 team beat Honduras 1-0 in the first match of their age group World
Cup in Nigeria. Sergio Araujo scored the only goal of the game. Around the world in the [...]
Click to continue reading...
It was a mixed week for Argentines in England Pablo Zabaleta was sent off and Carlos Tevez had to
toil on his own up front as Manchester City could only draw 1-1 with Wigan Athletic, and Javier
Mascherano and Emiliano Insúa's Liverpool lost in circumstances which were either hilarious or
exasperating depending on your [.
Click to continue reading...
This is probably the shortest Argentines Abroad update you're ever likely to read, but after
leaving it for such a long time before last week I'm eager not to break the habit. Also, with so
few leagues playing during the recent international break, Our Man In Mexico, Tom Clark, has
effectively written it for me [.
Click to continue reading...
As the selección converge on Ezeiza from all corners of the world (well, western Europe) for the
final, must-not-balls-up-this-time double-header of World Cup qualifiers against Peru (Saturday in
El Monumental) and Uruguay (a week on Wednesday in Montevideo's Estadio Centenario), it's
heartening that some of them have had more auspicious weekends than Carlos Tevez, who [.
Click to continue reading...
Diego Maradona has announced a list of just eighteen Europe-based players for Argentina's final two
World Cup qualifying matches at home to Peru and away to Uruguay. There are numerous big-name
casualties of Diego's refusal to consider that any part of the defeats to Brazil and Paraguay might
have been his fault.
Click to continue reading...
After a week of recriminations for the selección, Diego Maradona travels to Europe to bang some
heads together and break the news to some players that he'll be picking Argentine-based players
over them in future. All the same, there's some food for thought for him ('thought', Diego: that's
'pensamiento' in castellano, a word you might [.
Click to continue reading...
The chaotic 3-1 defeat to Brazil on Saturday night wasn't the only action for Argentine players
over the weekend. There was a full programme of matches in Mexico's Primera División, and plenty
of Argentines had starring roles. In a little taster as a first proper Argentines Abroad of the
season, Tom Clark gave me a [.
Click to continue reading...
Friday saw the announcement of Diego Maradona's national team squad to face Brazil in Rosario on
the 5th September, which will then take on Paraguay days later in Asunción. Matches between
Argentina and Brazil are always intense affairs, but with so much riding on this game for
Maradona's men in particular, el pibe de oro [.
Click to continue reading...
On Wednesday Argentina play Russia in Moscow in an international friendly, with Diego Maradona's
charges looking to gain some sort of momentum to take into their World Cup qualifier at home to
Brazil in Rosario next month. Argentine sports daily Olé claim that Andrei Arshavin is viewed as a
'hope for the future' in Russia, [.
Click to continue reading...
That is, protests against the AFA, not protests on the part of the AFA. At six on Tuesday evening,
two coaches dropped off sixty or seventy people outside the AFA headquarters who proceeded to mount
a protest against current AFA President Julio Grondona. Earlier in the day, José Sand was sold by
Lanús to Al Ain [.
Click to continue reading...
His fifteen year career took in ten titles: four Argentine leagues, one Copa Brasil, one French
Cup, one Copa Libertadores, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Panamerican Games title, and one Youth
World Cup. He was part of the most successful River Plate team of all time, and played for ten
clubs in six different countries.
Click to continue reading...
Boca Juniors' squad took off for Europe on Sunday in readiness to take part in the Audi Cup in
Munich (their first match is on Wednesday against Manchester United), but over the weekend there
have already been some Argentine clubs and players in pre-season action. River Plate beat Everton
thanks to a great Ariel Ortega [.
Click to continue reading...
Well that's what they say he's going to become, anyway. Javier Pastore, the just-turned-20-year-old
hero of Huracán's championship challenge during the Torneo Clausura, was unveiled as the newest
signing at Palermo, where he told the press, 'my model is Riquelme.' Elsewhere in Europe, various
Argentines played in pre-season friendlies for their clubs, including Javier Mascherano, [.
Click to continue reading...
The votes have been counted, and after the Copa Libertadores was decided on Wednesday night, it's
time to reveal the real question all of Latin America wants answering: who, in the opinions of the
readers of Hasta El Gol Siempre and Mundo Albiceleste, has been the best Argentine footballer
playing in a non-Argentine league over [.
Click to continue reading...
Next season's Argentines Abroad (on which note, the HEGS / MA Award winner will be announced on
Thursday) are swelling their ranks in the annual exodus from the banks of the Paraná and RÃo de
la Plata (the rivers of Babyl... I'll stop, shall I? OK). Rodrigo Palacio is finally leaving La
Bombonera and Santiago [.
Click to continue reading...
When you can read this story, it means voting for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best
Argentine Abroad has closed. The winner will be announced shortly no more votes please. Posted in
Argentine football, Argentines abroad, Football, Football awards, Hasta El Gol Siempre, Other
football sites, Players Tagged: Argentine football, Argentines abroad, HEGS [.
Click to continue reading...
If you've not already voted for our Argentines Abroad award, now's the time. Less than 24 hours
remaining! Argentina has recently had its own elections, but this week sees the culmination of a
far more important one. You've got only six days left to vote, if you haven't already, for your
winner in the HEGS / [.
Click to continue reading...
Argentina has recently had its own elections, but this week sees the culmination of a far more
important one. You've got only six days left to vote, if you haven't already, for your winner in
the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best Argentine Abroad. Pick Lionel Messi, Christian
Giménez, Diego Milito or Pablo Zabaleta, [.
Click to continue reading...
Radamel Falcao GarcÃa and Juan Marcelo Ojeda both seem to be on their way out of El Monumental at
the end of the Torneo Clausura, after the Colombian striker said that he 'understands' that he's on
his way, and interest in the young goalkeeper from Mexican club Atlas continues in spite of
complications in his [.
Click to continue reading...
Wednesday saw two birthdays in Argentine football: Juan Román Riquelme turned 31 (the fans turned
out in strength at Boca's training ground to wish him well) and Lionel Messi reminded us how
astonishing he is for his age by turning twenty-two. So it seems as good a time as any to remind
our readers that [.
Click to continue reading...
Don't worry Racing fans, that's not Ricardo Caruso Lombardi in the headline. Godoy Cruz striker
Leandro Caruso is off to Italy, where he'll play next season for Udinese after passing a medical.
At Huracán, president Carlos Babington wants to keep Javier Pastore at least until the end of the
year, so has signed an agreement [.
Click to continue reading...
On a terrible pitch, Argentina played poorly on Saturday but took three points all the same from a
Colombian side who pressured them all the way and made them work hard for the points. Getafe
defender Daniel 'Cata' DÃaz made the breakthrough in the eleventh minute of the second half. It
wasn't a pretty performance, [.
Click to continue reading...
Argentina host Colombia tonight at 6pm Argentine time (10pm British Summer Time) on the kind of
pitch that even Wembley Stadium Ltd. would be embarrassed to see England play on. After Argentine
rock band Los Piojos played in El Monumental last Saturday, the AFA have wait for it painted bits
of the pitch [.
Click to continue reading...
The French city of Toulon is hosting a friendly Under 21 international tournament this month which
Sergio Batista's boys have travelled to, and on Wednesday they played their first match against the
Netherlands, and demonstrated after the embarrassment of the Under 20s' failure to qualify to
defend their crown at the the Egypt 2009 World [.
Click to continue reading...
The European league seasons are now all over, as is the Mexican championship, but Argentines have
once again had a say, with European places still up for grabs, another title claimed in France and
one of Maradona's new boys very nearly turning the tide of the Mexican playoff final. With the
trophies wrapped up in [.
Click to continue reading...
The nominations have been counted for the 2008-2009 HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste Award for Best
Argentine Abroad, and they're an interesting bunch. Four players were nominated, and last year's
winner Carlos Tevez isn't among them. The top flights of Italy, Spain, Mexico and England have
provided us with the nominees, of whom three haven't previously [.
Click to continue reading...
Maxi López plays a little later tonight in the Copa Libertadores as his Grêmio side take on
Caracas FC in the first leg of the quarter-final. There have been two very prominent performances
on the other side of the Atlantic tonight though, as the two previous winners Lionel Messi and
Carlos Tevez looked [.
Click to continue reading...
The final full-length Argentines Abroad of 2008-2009 comes with just a day and a half left for you
to get your nominations in for the HEGS / Mundo Albiceleste award for the Best Argentine Abroad of
the season that's now finishing. So far we've had relatively few nominations in, so if you'd like
your favourite [.
Click to continue reading...
Diego Maradona has announced the squad for Argentina's next competitive matches, the World Cup 2010
qualifiers at home to Colombia on the 6th of June, and away to Ecuador on the 10th. The purpose of
that 'B' international on Wednesday night has been revealed no fewer than nine players from the
domestic game have [.
Click to continue reading...
After last week's midweek cup finals in Spain and Italy, the gongs are starting to be handed out
for the competitions people actually care about now, and already we've got three more league
champion sides in Europe with Argentine representation to add to AZ in the Netherlands and Porto in
Portugal. The Spanish, Italian and [.
Click to continue reading...
It's not too often I write one of these covering midweek matches, but Wednesday 13th May was a bit
of a high watermark for Argentine representatives in foreign football this season. The Copa
Libertadores and CONCACAF Champions League, as well as the national cup finals in both Spain and
Italy, all had important contributions from [.
Click to continue reading...
Two Independiente players may be in line for moves to foreign climes soon. One of them you've
probably heard of (if you follow the Argentine league, anyway), the other... well, if you've heard
of the other you need to get out more. Lucas Pusineri, 32-year-old midfield stalwart, might have an
offer from Major League Soccer, [.
Click to continue reading...
